Active Desktop is more then plain html it can do anything a local IE windows can do. (Control Your mediaplayer, reformat your drive, whatever) . it was actually really impressive. But you already have a shortcut to see the desktop, so why add yet another one, when you can just use that shortcut?
yeah the unimplemented feature list is way too long.
They said there would be flying cars, but nope nothing real.
They said we would have robots (think a mule char), nope not implemented yet.
They say the leveling treadmill would get easier, and you'd have to work less, but they made it harder, and took away options for breaks. (I mean power players are up there in the 100 hours a week category, and just about everyone puts in 40-50 I mean can you cuddle up to your non RL girlfriend when you put in that many hours?)
They claimed that there would be a massive battle between powers bent on taking over the world (and they really need the action), but they dropped the whole thing lately. I mean they do this a lot with events promoting then cancelling. They didn't even offer refunds for all those who had bought weapons and bunkers for thier promised war.
The promotional material (and that is another thing there is promotional material inside the game) all promises sex and power, but they never deliver, you can buy a car (sort of a horse) that you saved up a year for, and the most you get is a "nice car" from the NPCs.
Also the NPCs' AI just sucks. You go to a store, and it seems like half the time they didn't even bother to write proper greetings, and what greetings they do have well the voice talent must have just been to the dentist because they mumble a lot. They don't even have facial expressions really.
The good news is there is a patch coming out. "Revelations" is what they call it, but the good part is only for the evil chars. If you tried to play a paladin or whatever, you get to see the begining, and then you are whisked away for the really fun part.
It does make a difference, but a suprsingly small one. Esp. when you are dealing with DB backed websites, most of the time the real work is done in the DB, and it is the DB that falls over first. If the constant matters you take the portion of the code where it does and drop it down to native code, and move on with life. Most of the time though it really doesn't matter or isn't worth the programing time to do so. The constant isn't that large, and servers are cheaper then people.
You really don't get constant time expansion do you? Basically the cost of scaling up is O(n) in Pythoin or in C. Basically you can think of it as a machine that can make one greeting card per hour vs one that can make 4 per hour. One is faster then the other but in neither case are you going to hit a hard wall scaling. The ratio of slowness is important but so long as it is a relatively fixed ration, well it is liveable.
A lookup is still constant(ish) time. Would I use python to implement an OS? Probably not, but it will scale pretty much the same as anything else. And CPU speed is often in surplus.
C++ is not even a tool option for a wide variety of embedded architectures. Existence is a very big benefit.
Actually most servuces offer "return to us" promotions. A week or two free after a few months of cancelation. (of course if you flip the game on ebay that doesn't work, but it should get most people) I doubt WoW will offer anything like that till the server loads subside some, but still.
I think in someones notes on a talk from GDC it was mentioned that MMORPGs do get returning visitors but they do tend to stay shorter periods of time. Regardless, I wouldn't bet against Blizard in making a long running game.
Yes but it doesn't have ether. and it doesn't look like the GPIO pins are too easily gotten out of that connector.
Most of the things that this will be used for will have no use for the extra speed. A lot of these will be used to web enable industrial equipment (probably with some XML-RPC or something). This could well be an almost drop in remote RS232 output for example. It is amazing how far MHZ go when you have no GUI
Differing grounds can shock or kill you. (that is one of the reasons network cabling between floors is generally done with fiber). Of couse in a small installation that isn't a big deal.
Honestly, running cable is tiring, often sweaty, and really boring work. I would just budget for it, or set up a mesh network of wireless.
The whole idea of actors has been tried before, it is really hard to pull off, though. 20 odd people at 40 hours a week, yields 800 hours 48000 minutes. Given that they probably hope to have about that many players that means about a minute of interaction a week.
Also wouldn't the interactions mostly be a bunch of comic book guy type questions? I mean cool it is neo and some guy is playing him, but what is he going to say? "Good job on that bunny, now watch me do my superman thing?".
\\What about the fact that DRM allows Napster to offer an excellent service like Napster-to-Go?
I'm sure the same service can be offered with open MP3 or OGG files. Not really, well not unless they sent around people to make sure you deleted your files when your "rental" period was up. N2G is a very cool service, unlimited songs for a limited time. I will still pop the DRM on it but that is just for completeness's sake. Honestly, Rental sort of makes sense, but psuedo ownership is a scam.
Not just code examples but both non trivial examples and trivial examples. A reference application allows the developer to see how the design fits together (and can be used to test the viability of the design), while trivial examples allow copy and paste programming which on some projects is deadline dictated.
Sun's documentation is very well done. What is more is most of the various add ons are well documented, Javadoc really works well.
Also it helps a lot to have a nice quick start. Really look at what a lot of embeded systems companies have done lately, there is a serious push to do everything possible to just let the develepor to get on with life. Mostly it is just detailed documentation, just add water examples, and lots of communication (i.e. if you are having trouble with something you will end up speaking to the engineer who did that section.).
I think it is more that some feel betrayed I mean he writes a book (Ender's Game) where a lot of the book was recognizing others. With a strong thread of not hating just because one is told to hate. Then he writes Speaker for the Dead, which strongly pushes accepting people as they are.
Then he comes down hard on a side that is intolerant (NB there are times when it is fine to be intolerant, no judgement is used here) and that shook people. It would be like having Ghandi scream "Kill them all". Few people really have an issue with whatever you might believe (mostly because they really don't care to know), nor do they care what any long time conservative talking head feels, but OSC sudenly looked deceptive. There is a relationship between a reader and the author, and like any other relationship, deception is poison.
You will tend to notice it more out of the corner of your eye then head on. (Go ahead try it now), that is because the rods are more sensetive to motion.
Also some people don't notice it because it is all they have ever really used. A lot of people just assume their monitor sucks. They notice it but have no idea what causes it.
I mean it was never claimed to have umm finished corectly. I mean if every time a complicated program (dynamic programming counts as complicated/non-trivial in my book at least) went off and didn't finish I assumed the language sucked, well I would be out programing languages real quick.
Umm a lot of them were fulfilling all those conditions at the time of their capture (since a good ammount of them come from afghanistan, and were engaged with open conflict, since al qaeda formed an auxilary to Taliban troops)
Also given the speed of the advance: 6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
might apply. (The teritory wouldn't be occupied until it was taken, so if they resisted the advance, they might be under this, it would require some sort of hearing to tie them to a war crime, which in almost no case has been done)
Regardless the major reason they are claimed to be held outside of the Geneva convention is that their status was determined en masse by fiat, and not in any sort of sensible review process, though that is now slowly being corrected.
And none of this really has anything to do with the PATRIOT act.
Hehe, and some parents wonder what the alternative to threatening spanking is.:-P
Seriously this is why I like Slashdot. I mean anywhere else it would be "cradle will rock and cradle will fall...". So thank you for boosting my faith in it.
Hmmm and Thomas Randolph is not so bad a tutor of children (Though On Sixe Cambridge Lasses... would probably cause way too much explaning.)
It is just that there is a whole section of classical/trad music just for lulling babies to sleep. It is called a lullaby. While some of them have disturbing lyrics the baby doesn't care.
As for work music, hmmm dance music is probably best, waltzes, etc. Solid beat, and relatively limited dynamic range. Or marches, but marches have all sorts of connotations that you just don't want to get into most likely.
It isn't so much I have a problem with people doing it, but not really thinking about it before doing it. I mean at work I can understand, but when introducing it to children, well cutting out the extremes is just going to assure that they will grow up thinking it sucks (not that they won't anyways, what songs once inspired, now fall soft, etc).
Classical music with its large dynamic ranges is meant to be loud at times. People think classical is something nice and calm like a little old lady, but much of it is meant to be exciting, and brash.
I don't know 5gb just sometimes is not enough to prevent boredom, and in a large market you can just move up and down the band restlessly with new content just about every time you pass by. Good when you are feeling incredibly restless.
The news is really the reason I made it a nice to have checkbox. While most news serves no purpose every once in a while it is nice to have something. (power outages, storms, etc.), and of course it can help you get the weather.
A lot of people also use them to record songs they want for free. I don't like radio edits, but hey whatever floats etc.
You do realize that if this were popular you don't have to actually pay the bond, just have insurance bond for you. Besides they aren't targettting one company just saying that this would apply to online auctions which the world correctly translates as Ebay. They are not going to be making much money off $200 fees (because no one will pay them for one)
That is certainly Ebay's position. That Ebay does not do enough. It provides pricing and payment services, but does not perform some other legal responsibilities of auctions, and thus it falls back on the user to provide them. Ebay has very carefully avoided being an auctineer (which would require them to asses the items for sale for authenticity, and limit certain )
Whether or not that is true is a difficult question. I mean if I submitted a contract to an online legal review service, wouldn't they have liability? While liscened software opperated by the user is pretty easy to place in the user's own liability situation, where is the line where a service becomes something other then an action you told them to do. I mean if you told your doctor to fix the pain in your arm, and he did, but ignored the fact that the symptoms sounded a lot like a heart attack that should be grounds for liability.
All very tough. THe standard lately has been to strip liability laws, they don't for the most part apply to software anymore, nor do they apply for most anything in computers, and now a growing ammount of people want in on it.
That isn't horrible, but you still have typo risks, that and the response rates suck. Besides most sites simply aren't well enough designed to provide messages (i.e. log in, and get the message). The easy way (since getting large numbers of people to use s/mime or gpg is probably out) is to have a complimentary safe word that you provide the bank to use on email communications to you.
Then assuming they remember the rules, they can only be phised if the scammer knows/guess their name(there is no reason in this modern age to have a dear members letter ever, it should have the full name). and the safe word.
Phishing is a real problem, it went from don't click on anything that isn't profesional looking and sounding to make sure the site really is the banks to if they really want it so bad they will pester you the next time you log in.
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Active Desktop is more then plain html it can do anything a local IE windows can do. (Control Your mediaplayer, reformat your drive, whatever) . it was actually really impressive. But you already have a shortcut to see the desktop, so why add yet another one, when you can just use that shortcut?
You are right I only pulled 1400k/s I am so disappointed.
yeah the unimplemented feature list is way too long.
They said there would be flying cars, but nope nothing real.
They said we would have robots (think a mule char), nope not implemented yet.
They say the leveling treadmill would get easier, and you'd have to work less, but they made it harder, and took away options for breaks. (I mean power players are up there in the 100 hours a week category, and just about everyone puts in 40-50 I mean can you cuddle up to your non RL girlfriend when you put in that many hours?)
They claimed that there would be a massive battle between powers bent on taking over the world (and they really need the action), but they dropped the whole thing lately. I mean they do this a lot with events promoting then cancelling. They didn't even offer refunds for all those who had bought weapons and bunkers for thier promised war.
The promotional material (and that is another thing there is promotional material inside the game) all promises sex and power, but they never deliver, you can buy a car (sort of a horse) that you saved up a year for, and the most you get is a "nice car" from the NPCs.
Also the NPCs' AI just sucks. You go to a store, and it seems like half the time they didn't even bother to write proper greetings, and what greetings they do have well the voice talent must have just been to the dentist because they mumble a lot. They don't even have facial expressions really.
The good news is there is a patch coming out. "Revelations" is what they call it, but the good part is only for the evil chars. If you tried to play a paladin or whatever, you get to see the begining, and then you are whisked away for the really fun part.
LARP. That is all. Really don't expect the pages of playboy come to life, but bawdy can be good.
It does make a difference, but a suprsingly small one. Esp. when you are dealing with DB backed websites, most of the time the real work is done in the DB, and it is the DB that falls over first. If the constant matters you take the portion of the code where it does and drop it down to native code, and move on with life. Most of the time though it really doesn't matter or isn't worth the programing time to do so. The constant isn't that large, and servers are cheaper then people.
You really don't get constant time expansion do you? Basically the cost of scaling up is O(n) in Pythoin or in C. Basically you can think of it as a machine that can make one greeting card per hour vs one that can make 4 per hour. One is faster then the other but in neither case are you going to hit a hard wall scaling. The ratio of slowness is important but so long as it is a relatively fixed ration, well it is liveable.
A lookup is still constant(ish) time. Would I use python to implement an OS? Probably not, but it will scale pretty much the same as anything else. And CPU speed is often in surplus.
C++ is not even a tool option for a wide variety of embedded architectures. Existence is a very big benefit.
Actually most servuces offer "return to us" promotions. A week or two free after a few months of cancelation. (of course if you flip the game on ebay that doesn't work, but it should get most people) I doubt WoW will offer anything like that till the server loads subside some, but still.
I think in someones notes on a talk from GDC it was mentioned that MMORPGs do get returning visitors but they do tend to stay shorter periods of time. Regardless, I wouldn't bet against Blizard in making a long running game.
Yes but it doesn't have ether. and it doesn't look like the GPIO pins are too easily gotten out of that connector.
Most of the things that this will be used for will have no use for the extra speed. A lot of these will be used to web enable industrial equipment (probably with some XML-RPC or something). This could well be an almost drop in remote RS232 output for example. It is amazing how far MHZ go when you have no GUI
Differing grounds can shock or kill you. (that is one of the reasons network cabling between floors is generally done with fiber). Of couse in a small installation that isn't a big deal.
Honestly, running cable is tiring, often sweaty, and really boring work. I would just budget for it, or set up a mesh network of wireless.
The whole idea of actors has been tried before, it is really hard to pull off, though. 20 odd people at 40 hours a week, yields 800 hours 48000 minutes. Given that they probably hope to have about that many players that means about a minute of interaction a week.
Also wouldn't the interactions mostly be a bunch of comic book guy type questions? I mean cool it is neo and some guy is playing him, but what is he going to say? "Good job on that bunny, now watch me do my superman thing?".
\\What about the fact that DRM allows Napster to offer an excellent service like Napster-to-Go?
I'm sure the same service can be offered with open MP3 or OGG files. Not really, well not unless they sent around people to make sure you deleted your files when your "rental" period was up. N2G is a very cool service, unlimited songs for a limited time. I will still pop the DRM on it but that is just for completeness's sake. Honestly, Rental sort of makes sense, but psuedo ownership is a scam.
Not just code examples but both non trivial examples and trivial examples. A reference application allows the developer to see how the design fits together (and can be used to test the viability of the design), while trivial examples allow copy and paste programming which on some projects is deadline dictated.
Sun's documentation is very well done. What is more is most of the various add ons are well documented, Javadoc really works well.
Also it helps a lot to have a nice quick start. Really look at what a lot of embeded systems companies have done lately, there is a serious push to do everything possible to just let the develepor to get on with life. Mostly it is just detailed documentation, just add water examples, and lots of communication (i.e. if you are having trouble with something you will end up speaking to the engineer who did that section.).
I think it is more that some feel betrayed I mean he writes a book (Ender's Game) where a lot of the book was recognizing others. With a strong thread of not hating just because one is told to hate. Then he writes Speaker for the Dead, which strongly pushes accepting people as they are.
Then he comes down hard on a side that is intolerant (NB there are times when it is fine to be intolerant, no judgement is used here) and that shook people. It would be like having Ghandi scream "Kill them all". Few people really have an issue with whatever you might believe (mostly because they really don't care to know), nor do they care what any long time conservative talking head feels, but OSC sudenly looked deceptive. There is a relationship between a reader and the author, and like any other relationship, deception is poison.
You will tend to notice it more out of the corner of your eye then head on. (Go ahead try it now), that is because the rods are more sensetive to motion.
Also some people don't notice it because it is all they have ever really used. A lot of people just assume their monitor sucks. They notice it but have no idea what causes it.
Or maybe just a plain old infinite loop.
I mean it was never claimed to have umm finished corectly. I mean if every time a complicated program (dynamic programming counts as complicated/non-trivial in my book at least) went off and didn't finish I assumed the language sucked, well I would be out programing languages real quick.
Umm a lot of them were fulfilling all those conditions at the time of their capture (since a good ammount of them come from afghanistan, and were engaged with open conflict, since al qaeda formed an auxilary to Taliban troops)
Also given the speed of the advance:
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
might apply. (The teritory wouldn't be occupied until it was taken, so if they resisted the advance, they might be under this, it would require some sort of hearing to tie them to a war crime, which in almost no case has been done)
Regardless the major reason they are claimed to be held outside of the Geneva convention is that their status was determined en masse by fiat, and not in any sort of sensible review process, though that is now slowly being corrected.
And none of this really has anything to do with the PATRIOT act.
Hehe, and some parents wonder what the alternative to threatening spanking is. :-P
Seriously this is why I like Slashdot. I mean anywhere else it would be "cradle will rock and cradle will fall...". So thank you for boosting my faith in it.
Hmmm and Thomas Randolph is not so bad a tutor of children (Though On Sixe Cambridge Lasses... would probably cause way too much explaning.)
Great line about the cannon.
It is just that there is a whole section of classical/trad music just for lulling babies to sleep. It is called a lullaby. While some of them have disturbing lyrics the baby doesn't care.
As for work music, hmmm dance music is probably best, waltzes, etc. Solid beat, and relatively limited dynamic range. Or marches, but marches have all sorts of connotations that you just don't want to get into most likely.
It isn't so much I have a problem with people doing it, but not really thinking about it before doing it. I mean at work I can understand, but when introducing it to children, well cutting out the extremes is just going to assure that they will grow up thinking it sucks (not that they won't anyways, what songs once inspired, now fall soft, etc).
Classical music with its large dynamic ranges is meant to be loud at times. People think classical is something nice and calm like a little old lady, but much of it is meant to be exciting, and brash.
I don't know 5gb just sometimes is not enough to prevent boredom, and in a large market you can just move up and down the band restlessly with new content just about every time you pass by. Good when you are feeling incredibly restless.
The news is really the reason I made it a nice to have checkbox. While most news serves no purpose every once in a while it is nice to have something. (power outages, storms, etc.), and of course it can help you get the weather.
A lot of people also use them to record songs they want for free. I don't like radio edits, but hey whatever floats etc.
He isn't kidding, though some of them have been repealed. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2 coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3A official&q=marijuana+tax+stamps&btnG=Search They are mostly collected as novelties obviously, though to avoid self-incrimination problems the state has to be very sure that buying them is anonymous. So buying them is actually the safest thing a drug dealer can do. Doesn't mean it is worth splitting the profits with the state of course.
You do realize that if this were popular you don't have to actually pay the bond, just have insurance bond for you. Besides they aren't targettting one company just saying that this would apply to online auctions which the world correctly translates as Ebay. They are not going to be making much money off $200 fees (because no one will pay them for one)
That is certainly Ebay's position. That Ebay does not do enough. It provides pricing and payment services, but does not perform some other legal responsibilities of auctions, and thus it falls back on the user to provide them. Ebay has very carefully avoided being an auctineer (which would require them to asses the items for sale for authenticity, and limit certain )
Whether or not that is true is a difficult question. I mean if I submitted a contract to an online legal review service, wouldn't they have liability? While liscened software opperated by the user is pretty easy to place in the user's own liability situation, where is the line where a service becomes something other then an action you told them to do. I mean if you told your doctor to fix the pain in your arm, and he did, but ignored the fact that the symptoms sounded a lot like a heart attack that should be grounds for liability.
All very tough. THe standard lately has been to strip liability laws, they don't for the most part apply to software anymore, nor do they apply for most anything in computers, and now a growing ammount of people want in on it.
That isn't horrible, but you still have typo risks, that and the response rates suck. Besides most sites simply aren't well enough designed to provide messages (i.e. log in, and get the message). The easy way (since getting large numbers of people to use s/mime or gpg is probably out) is to have a complimentary safe word that you provide the bank to use on email communications to you.
Then assuming they remember the rules, they can only be phised if the scammer knows/guess their name(there is no reason in this modern age to have a dear members letter ever, it should have the full name). and the safe word.
Phishing is a real problem, it went from don't click on anything that isn't profesional looking and sounding to make sure the site really is the banks to if they really want it so bad they will pester you the next time you log in.